Race Details

So after having Brownie tell me more about the race details than I knew myself I decided to do some digging......Firstly I'm confirmed in the starting line up. Although they are saying I'm Belgian rather than Scottish. It must be based on your current location, its not on my command of French thats for sure.

I checked out some photos and while I was looking I got a profile of the cycling course...Its 2 laps of a 45km course and hidden in there is a 300m climb over an 11km section....in old money thats nearly 1000ft.

Thats a fair climb and I need to do it twice. There is 20km flat section, 11km uphill and the remaining 14km is downhill. Its not the coast I need to be training at its the Ardennes.

The run route as you can see is flatter with just one climb of just 30m or 100ft over 1km, this again needs to be done twice.

The roads after inspecting the photos however look like billiard tables so its not the dreaded Pave.....The scenery looks absolutely stunning as you can see from the photo.


The start will be staggered based on the different age groups as you can see from the table below:-

08.55 a.m. Professionals Men and Women
09.00 a.m. start Age Groups M18 / M25
09.20 a.m. start Age Group M30
09.40 a.m. start Age Group M35
10.00 a.m. start Age Groups M50+
10.20 a.m. start Age Group M40
10.40 a.m. start Age Group M45
11.00 a.m. start Age Groups all categories women

Prizes
The first 10 men and women in the Pro category of the IRONMAN 70.3 SWITZERLAND will receive prize money as long as they cross the finishing line within +10% of the time of the second-placed athlete.

The prize money of US$ 25'000.– will be distributed equally to the men and women as follows:

1st place:	US$ 4'000.–	6th place:	US$ 750.–
2nd place:	US$ 2'500.–	7th place:	US$ 500.–
3rd place:	US$ 1'750.–	8th place:	US$ 350.–
4th place:	US$ 1'250.–	9th place:	US$ 250.–
5th place:	US$ 1'000.–	10th place:	US$ 150.–